Del Mar College Overcomes Tape Backup Woes with Revinetix D2D Backup Appliance, Protecting Linux, Windows, Mac and UNIX Servers.SALT LAKE CITY & CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas Corpus Christi is a coastal city and the county seat of Nueces CountyGR6 in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the region known as South Texas. -- Please replace the release dated Aug. 29, 2006, with the following corrected version due to multiple revisions. The corrected release reads: DEL MAR COLLEGE Del Mar College is a community college in Corpus Christi, Texas. About Del Mar College Founded in 1935, the institution is a comprehensive community college. The College encompasses two primary campuses and one campus annex with combined physical assets of more than $99 OVERCOMES TAPE BACKUP Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. WOES WITH REVINETIX D2D (Disk-to-Disk) Typically refers to backing up data on disks rather than on tape. Disk-to-disk backup systems provide a very fast restore capability compared with tape backup. See D2D2T and virtual tape. BACKUP APPLIANCE, PROTECTING LINUX, WINDOWS, MAC AND UNIX SERVERS Del Mar College Replaces Tape Library with More Reliable and Affordable Disk-Based Backup Solution from Revinetix Revinetix, a pioneer in Disk2Disk2Disk(TM) backup solutions, today announced that Del Mar College has replaced its legacy tape backup solution with a Sentio backup appliance for the College's computer network servers, as well as critical workstations used by administrative management. Located in Corpus Christi, Texas, Del Mar College operates 40 computer servers running on Windows 2000/2003, Linux, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , and Mac operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . These devices support an estimated 300-400 different software applications used by its 11,000 students and faculty for video streaming See streaming video and video stream. , Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. , print and file serving, among many other things. Prior to selecting Revinetix' backup appliance, the College used a tape library system. "Tape backup cost us a great deal in downtime, worry, and licensing," said Vince Villarreal, network support specialist for Del Mar College. "Tapes would sometimes get stuck, backup software was cumbersome, and we had to send our 30-slot tape library back to be fixed twice, which cost a great deal of downtime. I always had licensing issues and when we started to grow, it just couldn't keep up. "The Revinetix solution, however, is a great product. It does everything we need it to do and more. I wish I had found it sooner. I like how all of the client software is included. My backup window has dropped from 12-13 hours to next to nothing. I can do a complete bare metal restore on a Linux box in less than 20 minutes, which I wasn't able to do prior. And now we're running on SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. drives, so we can grow our backup, dump everything to an archive disk and just buy another standard SATA drive as needed as needed prn. See prn order. ." Revinetix Value-Added Reseller (VAR) SpeedLink Solutions assisted Del Mar College in selecting the Sentio 3400 series appliance, which provides 4TB of raw data capacity or 8TB compressed backup capacity. "The Revinetix solution was an especially good fit for Del Mar College because of the Sentio product's site licensing and support for multiple operating systems," said SpeedLink Solutions Manager Jack Evans. "Del Mar was able to stick the Sentio in their rack, plug an Ethernet cable in, and start adding clients within minutes." Available with 500GB to 4.8TB of uncompressed capacity, Revinetix Sentio appliances feature hot swappable serial ATA (SATA) drive technology and support scheduled automated backups to the desktop level for every machine connected to a network. This family of backup appliances includes high-performance Xeon processors, RAID 5 redundancy, Gigabit and Fast Ethernet controllers, and dual redundant load sharing power supplies together with all the software required to back up an entire network, including full Bare Metal Restore (BMR BMR basal metabolic rate. BMR abbr. basal metabolic rate BMR, n See basal metabolic rate. BMR basal metabolic rate. ) software. About Revinetix Inc. Revinetix Inc. is a pioneer in Disk2Disk2Disk(TM) backup and recovery solutions. Founded in the fall of 2003, Revinetix has revolutionized backup and recovery technology with the introduction of CLICK-EJECT-ARCHIVE(TM). Revinetix offers the first total disk backup solution that allows automated backup schedules for every user on the network and allows critical data to be stored safely off-site from a single appliance. To learn more about Revinetix, visit www.revinetix.com or call 888-264-5116 for more information. For more information, customers are encouraged to contact Revinetix at 801-263-5116 or sales@revinetix.com to locate a reseller in their local area. Note for Editors A publication quality, high-resolution photo of the Revinetix Sentio appliance is available for download at: http://sentio.revinetix.com/press/ |
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